E-Commerce (Digital Content – B2B) Website Terms of Use
These E-Commerce Sale of Digital Content Website Terms of Use are designed for online retailers providing digital content to business customers through an e-commerce website.
They regulate use of the website itself and are intended to be used alongside a separate set of sale terms for the digital content supplied through the site. This template applies to website use, leaving the sale of digital content to a counterpart terms of sale document.
You may also need a Website Privacy Policies template and a Cookie Policy where your website collects personal data or uses cookies.
Please Note: This template, together with the counterpart terms of sale, replaces the previous TR.WEB.TC.08 and TR.WEB.TC.09 templates, formerly known as ‘Information Provider’ terms and conditions. Now referring to ‘digital content’, these terms remain applicable to websites providing information but can now also be applied to a broad range of other digital content.
Use these terms to govern access to your digital content website
These terms are designed for acceptance through use, so visitors are deemed to accept them as soon as they start using the site. Optional wording also allows acceptance as part of the account sign-up process.
They include important information about the website operator, such as company registration details, trading address, and any relevant regulatory bodies or associations. For certain trades and professions, additional information may be required by law, so those in regulated professions should take professional advice.
Website protection, user permissions, and digital content-specific risks
This document has been updated to include a clause prohibiting scraping and text and data mining, including practices commonly used in the development and training of AI models. The clause is intended to make such activity a direct breach of the terms of use, although technical measures are also recommended to help protect website content.
The intellectual property provisions protect copyright and other rights while allowing you to choose how much freedom users have to save or copy material from the site. Optional provisions also deal with deep-linking and other links to your website.
The linking provisions are designed to help prevent links to your site from websites publishing mainly unsavoury or unlawful content.
What these terms cover
- access to the site and user accounts;
- intellectual property and user content;
- scraping, text and data mining, and website security;
- linking, liability, disclaimers, and acceptable use; and
- privacy, cookies, data protection, marketing communications, and governing law.
Limits of the template
The disclaimers and liability provisions are intended to protect the website operator to the maximum extent considered reasonable.
In this context, those provisions relate only to use of the website itself. They do not govern the sale of the digital content, which should be addressed in the separate terms of sale.
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